Images during and Boston’s “Big Dig.” Construction on the Big Dig began in 1991 (though planning began decades earlier) and lasted 15 years, with the last project opening in 2006.
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Photos from the Big Dig, Boston’s Infra Makeover
Posted by Infra on Monday, November 8th, 2010Photos: From Here to There
Posted by Infra on Thursday, November 4th, 2010
Streetfilms: Revisiting Donald Appleyard’s Livable Streets
Posted by Infra on Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
“Fixing the Great Mistake” is a new Streetfilms series that examines what went wrong in the early part of the 20th Century, when our cities began catering to the automobile, and how those decisions continue to affect our lives today.
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Posted by Infra on Tuesday, October 26th, 2010Caltrans District 4 – Caldecott Tunnel 4th Bore Early Excavation
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Streetfilms: Voices from the Rail~Volution (2010)
Posted by Infra on Monday, October 25th, 2010
Streetfilms was out in Portland at this year’s Rail~Volution 2010 trying to get a pulse on the transportation world by talking to a healthy dose of this year’s attendees which includes advocates, bloggers, transportation planners, industry spokespeople and members transportation agencies across the country.
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Posted by Infra on Thursday, October 21st, 2010Approaches to Onsite Management – National Environmental Services Center 2002 – Product DPDVMG56 – Produced with funding by the EPA, this video details approaches to Onsite Management. The National Environmental Services Center (NESC) exists to assist small and rural communities with their drinking water, wastewater, environmental training, solid waste, infrastructure security, and utility management needs and to help them find solutions to problems they face. Noncommercial use only.
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Video: Twin Groves Wind Farm and Carlock Construction
Posted by Infra on Wednesday, October 20th, 2010120 Vestas V82 Windmills are scattered throughout the country side just east of Bloomington Illinois. At a cost of $1.6 Million each they provide power to 60,000 homes. Another 100 turbines are being erected at Carlock. White Oak Energy Center is between Peoria and Bloomington. This video shows the Twin Groves Wind farm and some of the new construction at Carlock.
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...Video: 2010 Austin Transportation Bond
Posted by Infra on Tuesday, October 19th, 2010The City of Austin has scheduled a $90 million mobility bond election for Nov. 2, 2010 (Early voting begins Monday, Oct. 18.) The proposed projects are both short-term and long-term to address City mobility issues, including investments in streets, sidewalks, bike paths, trails and transit infrastructure in all parts of Austin.
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Posted by Infra on Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
VIDEO: Arlington’s Smart Growth
Posted by Content Coordinator on Thursday, October 7th, 2010Arlington County’s Transit Oriented Development over the last 40 years is explained in this 11min video. Planner, Bob Brosnan, takes us on a journey from the post war visionary leaders, who laid Arlington’s award winning foundations, to a streetcar future. Brosnan gives a concise definition of Arlington’s Smart Growth, its benefits, and where that growth is headed.
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